Commercial Developments


In the Commercial Developments category you can read about UK commercial property either in the planning stage, under construction or newly completed. This includes reports on office and serviced office space, retail developments and much more.


Tyneside Shipyard gets £8m Regeneration Boost

Posted on 17 August, 2015 by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Developments

A North-East council has received an £8m boost for its plan to transform an historic Tyneside shipyard into a business and warehouse complex. The 32-acre scheme has already received multi-million pound backing from the Government’s “Growth Deal” for... Read More

REM tops out Pall Mall Office Development

Posted on by Neil Bird under Commercial Developments

Real Estate Management UK Ltd (REM) – a joint venture between the State of Qatar, Qatar National Bank and the Sellar family – has marked the completion of the structure of its 48 Pall Mall development with a topping out ceremony. The St James’s... Read More

Green Light given for Northumberland Commissioners Quay Hotel Development

Posted on 15 August, 2015 by Kirsten Kennedy under Commercial Developments

Northumberland development company Arch has received planning permission for a £4.5 million hotel at its Commissioners Quay development in Blyth, the New Post Leader reports. To be known as the Commissioners Quay Inn, the hotel will comprise 40... Read More

Crown Estate plans £150m Fosse Park extension

Posted on 14 August, 2015 by Neil Bird under Commercial Developments, Commercial Sales and Lets

The Crown Estate is poised to embark on a £150 million extension to Leicester shopping destination Fosse Park, after reaching a conditional agreement to buy the 12.5 acre Castle Acres site. The purchase of the site is subject to Blaby District... Read More

New Roundabout opens the door to Teesside Estate Upgrade

Posted on by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Developments

The North-East’s biggest commercial developer has started work on the latest stage of its multi-million pound refurbishment of Teesside Estate. UK Land Estates’ £5m investment comes after the company spent £3m improving access to the site. Adrian... Read More

AXA Real Estate launches Hammersmith Campus Development

Posted on by Neil Bird under Commercial Developments

AXA Real Estate Investment Managers will shortly begin construction of the first phase of a major mixed-use urban campus in Hammersmith. Assembly London, located on the site of the former Harper Collins office on Fulham Palace Road, will eventually... Read More

H20 secures first Wharfdale Park pre-let

Posted on 13 August, 2015 by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Developments

A Birmingham joint-venture industrial and warehouse development has secured its first tenant before construction work on the £20m scheme has even begun. A design image of Birmingham’s Wharfdale Park development Wharfdale Park — next to the Grand... Read More

Telford Mega-Shed Plans Unveiled

Posted on by MOVEHUT under Commercial Developments

The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) is pressing ahead with its attempts to solve the Shropshire “big hut” shortage with a plan to build a 640,000 sq ft warehouse in Telford. Matthew Tilt of Lambert Smith Hampton The scheme, being considered by... Read More

Abandoned Middlesbrough Sainsbury’s Store to be offered to Competitors

Posted on 12 August, 2015 by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Developments

Politicians, commercial agents and shoppers have united to brand a decision by Sainsbury’s to scrap a flagship North-East store — just days away from opening — as a “disgrace”. The supermarket giant’s latest store at Middlesbrough, built as... Read More

L&G and Scarborough to deliver Thorpe Park scheme

Posted on by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Developments

A tie-in between two Legal & General companies has secured a half-share in a 200-acre Yorkshire business development. The joint venture with Scarborough Group International will add more than a million square feet of mixed-use development to Thorpe Park... Read More

Learn more about our Commercial Developments category

Over recent years urban regeneration projects throughout the UK have resulted in a huge expansion of commercial property developments. Many of these are ongoing and will continue to deliver new business space in the future.

In addition many towns and cities have seen an expansion of out-of-town projects resulting in new business parks, shopping centres and leisure developments.

You will find stories about all of these here together with news regarding new industrial, healthcare and warehouse property. So if you want to read about the latest Grade A office space in London’s financial district or improvements to Sheffield’s retail quarter, the Commercial Development category is for you.